Intelligentsia

1996: xiv). Immigration, Sassen suggests, presents a crucial tension in this network. It becomes a site of renationalisation discourses in politics – but also reveals the contradictory role of the state. The far left is presented as the liberal intelligentsia who support the notion of unalienable human rights, and the far right is epitomised by Katie Hopkins, a British columnist and television personality who during the UK elections in 2015 called migrants ‘cockroaches’ and ‘feral humans’ and…

The Second World War: Collective Memory and History- Historiographical Essay: Judt, T. “The Past is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Post-War Europe.” In Memory and Power in Post-War Europe: Studies in the Presence of the Past, edited by J.W. Muller, 157-83. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First Paragraph- Judt’s Main Arguments: Tony Judt’s essay The Past is Another Country: Myth and Memory in Post-War Europe details the immediate post-war European past that failed to face the…

For this reason, The Nazi Empire and Germany's victories in Europe, Nazi Empire created glowing images of a new European order based on “equal chances” for all nations and an integrated economic community. This was not Adolf Hitler conception of a European new order. Adolf Hitler saw that that Europe had conquered back Germany with full power and dominating everything. Only the Germans, he once said, “can really organize Europe.” The Nazi Empire stretched across continental Europe from the…

blockage of equal rights. Discussion for numerous subjects related to African American religion, social activities, and cultural differences were also housed in the magazine. The Crisis was a “mirror for and to black America, it inspired a black intelligentsia and its public” (Holt). World War I started and the NAACP supported Negro soldier’s rights. Du Bois wrote “Close Ranks,” an editorial asking for African Americans to help in the war. As the war waged on Du Bois became very aware of the…

The largest genocide in history that killed approximately eleven million human beings who were either homosexuals,Jews, gypsies, communists or socialists. The Holocaust was the works of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime, the catastrophic event occurred from January 30 1933 to May 8 1945. The ethnic group who was targeted a significant amount throughout the Holocaust was the Jewish people. Adolf Hitler made it out as if the Jews were horrible, horrific people who were greedy and criminals. Hitler was…

hostile middle class as well as garner popularity with the public as a whole. Contrary to his expectation, the Shah suffered from severe backlash due to unintended consequences of the reforms such as the proliferation of the urban proletariats and intelligentsia who resented the Shah for their lack of social and political freedom due to repression of trade unions or representative organisations and press…

Section 2B Repression Clergy The Bolsheviks wanted only their own ideology existing in Russia, and so restricted faith by repressing the clergy. In 1918 many leaders of the Russian Orthodox church were brutally murdered - Vladimir of Kiev, who was mutilated, castrated, shot and had his corpse put on display for public, Archbishop Vasily who was crucified and burned. A key strategy of the Bolsheviks was to split the clergy, which they did through introduction of the Living Church in 1922.…

positions of Liu and Deng, as well as to reimpose his beliefs on the nation by eradicating the ‘Four Olds’ – old culture, habits, ideas and customs. Denunciation of anyone who was seemingly superior was encouraged: teachers, economists, writers, intelligentsia, and allies of Liu Shao Qi. (Cairns, 2012) Mao sought to create a cult for himself and to purge anyone who did not support him. He desired to create a classless society in China. However, the vehemence of the Red Guards elevated social…

displaying the inner beauty and humanity in them. They advocate love for and brotherhood with one’s fellow man. This is a distinct contrast to the attitudes of many other Russians during the period in which the authors wrote, specifically the “logical” intelligentsia, many of whom were atheists, even nihilists. In both Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, an overdependence on logical reasoning is presented as a negative trait that ultimately leads to a lack of love…

horrors in Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky portrayed naked and grim. The primary structure of the book to inform for the previous character and the main character is Raskolnikov. These are pictures of people standing in front of two Russian intelligentsia views and nihilistic pessimism of…